For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOARD. The Board of Sanitary Commissioners of the City Sanitary District of the City of Richmond, Indiana.
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°C, expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter).
CITY. The City of Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana acting by and through its Board of Sanitary Commissioners of the City Sanitary District.
DISTRICT. The Sanitary District of the city, acting by its duly constituted Board of Commissioners or their authorized representatives.
COMMERCIAL USER. Any establishment offering lodging, selling goods (either retail or wholesale), or offering services for sale, or contributing an average monthly flow in excess of 10,000 gallons, or any industrial establishment not qualifying as an “industrial users”.
DWELLING UNITS. One or more rooms for the use of one or more persons as a housekeeping unit with space for eating, living and sleeping, and permanent provision for cooking and sanitation.
EXCESSIVE STRENGTH SURCHARGES. An additional charge which is billed to users for treating sewage wastes with an average strength in excess of “normal domestic sewage”.
INDUSTRIAL USER. Any manufacturing or processing facility that discharges industrial waste to a publicly-owned treatment works.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES. Any solid, liquid or gaseous waste resulting from any process or excess energy of industry, manufacturing trade or business, or from the development, processing or recovery of any natural resource, except for agricultural crop raising, as distinct from industrial employees’ domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences (normal domestic sewage).
NPDES PERMIT. The permit issued to the sewage works under the national pollutant discharge elimination system for discharge of wastewaters to the navigable waters of the United States pursuant to § 402 of the Federal Water Quality Act Amendments of 1972.
NORMAL DOMESTIC SEWAGE. A combination of liquid and water-carried wastes resulting from activities common to residences and generally having strengths not exceeding 200 mg/l BOD and 225 mg/l suspended solids.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS. Includes all costs, direct and indirect, necessary to provide adequate wastewater collection, transport and treatment on a continuing basis and produce discharges to receiving waters that conform with all related federal, state and local requirements. These costs include replacement.
OTHER SERVICE CHARGES. Tap charges, connection charges, area charges and other identifiable charges, other than “user charges”, “debt service charges” and “excessive strength surcharges”.
PERSON. Any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm, company, municipal or private corporation, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency or other entity.
REPLACEMENT COSTS. The budget allowances set aside to provide for cash expenditures for procuring and installing units of equipment or reconstructing appurtenances necessary to maintain or regain the capacity and performance for which the treatment works were designed during their useful life.
SEGREGATED DOMESTIC WASTES. Those wastes from non-residential users which are generated from activities of a domestic nature and which are measurable or set apart from industrial discharges.
SEWER USE ORDINANCE. A separate and companion enactment to this chapter, set out in Chapter 58, which regulates the connection to and use of public and private sewers.
SHALL AND MAY.
SHALL. Mandatory.
MAY. Permissive.
STANDARD LABORATORY PROCEDURE. The analytical and sampling methods as they appear in the most recent editions of:
(1) Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, APHA, New York 10019; A.S.T.M. Standards, Part 23, Water, Atmospheric Analysis, American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, PA 19103; and
(2) Methods of Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes, USEPA, Water Quality Office, Analytical Quality Control Laboratory, 1014 Broadway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids in a liquid suspension of water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering under standard laboratory procedure.
USER CHARGE. A charge levied on users of the wastewater treatment works for the cost of operation and maintenance of the works pursuant to § 204(b) of Pub. Law No. 92-500, (including replacement).
USER CLASS. The division of wastewater treatment customers by source, function, waste characteristics and process or discharge similarities (i.e., residential, commercial, industrial, institutional and governmental) in the user charge system.
(1) COMMERCIAL USER. Any establishment offering lodging, selling goods (either retail or wholesale), or offering services for sale, or contributing an average monthly flow in excess of 10,000 gallons, or any industrial establishment not qualifying as an “industrial users”.
(2) GOVERNMENTAL USER. Any federal, state or local governmental user of the wastewater treatment work.
(3) INDUSTRIAL USER. Any manufacturing or processing facility that discharges industrial waste to a publicly-owned treatment works.
(4) INSTITUTIONAL USER. Any establishment involved in a social, charitable, religious or educational function which, based on a determination by the Sanitary District, discharges primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
(5) RESIDENTIAL USER. A user of the treatment works whose premises or building is used primarily as a residence for one or more persons, including all dwelling units.
(Prior Code, § 53.05) (Ord. 93-1995, passed - -)